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Bernadette 'bird' Bowen
Bernadette Bowen is a Ph.D. student in the School of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University. Her interests intersect the broad fields of critical and feminist theories, with an eye towards the ideological struggle between institutions, gender and media ecology. As long as she can remember she has been fascinated with observing those around her and her surroundings. She is a shameless millennial, born in January 1990. Therefore, she was born and raised with liberal-oriented 1990s cartoons, the Internet, video game consoles and cell phones. The way she sees it, in only 29 years, she has lived many lives virtually, socioeconomically and physically; intermediated (for better or worse) by increasingly more pervasive forms of technology. For her, that experience took shape within a sociology bachelors and critical media studies focused on communication masters. Which is to say, she was an easy sell into the Media Ecology Association (MEA). Media ecology speaks her language. She was introduced to media ecology by her now-advisor Dr John Dowd in fall 2018. If you ask her now, in today’s world, someone is either a media ecologist or they’re not paying full enough attention.
